Here's the list of the Cosmetic Executive Women's 2005 Beauty Award winners for cosmetics and other beauty care products, with links to company information. Most are available in the city at Sephora and department stores, some at drug stores.

Ground ZeroNicolai Ouroussoff in today's Times takes on the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the flaws in both the process and the components of the ground zero plans. The LMDC, says Mr. Ouroussoff, has not only refused to open a discussion of the site's organization, but, appallingly, citing confidentiality agreements, will not allow the architects involved to talk with each other. "…the major architectural players at ground zero — Mr. Libeskind, Mr. Gehry, Santiago Calatrava, David Childs, Mr. Arad and the Snohetta architects, to name the most obvious — have never sat down in a room together to discuss their growing concerns about the overall plan, let alone exchange ideas about how best to improve it." Full article here.